Read more about the article REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021)   CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022
Carrie Hope Fletcher as Cinderella and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt as the Stepmother (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021) CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022

Carrie Hope Fletcher is a real asset to this show, she sings like a dream and has a super personality with lashings of humour which the other women all seem to lack. I saw Ivano Turco's understudy Michael Hamway as Sebastian who is operatically trained and his singing is gorgeous but his dance moves are decidedly odd.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Jersey Boys, Trafalgar Theatre (2021)
Adam Bailey as Bob Gaudio, Ben Joyce as Frankie Valli, Benjamin Yates as Tommy De Vito and Karl James Wilson as Nick Massi (Photo: Darren Bell)

REVIEW: Jersey Boys, Trafalgar Theatre (2021)

Although Jersey Boys is a musical made up of a back catalogue, and what a back catalogue it is, it has a good content of interesting biographical detail about these remarkable singers which drives the show.Tommy De Vito (Benjamin Yates) is the driving force getting the group together and recruiting the amazing Frankie Castelluccio (Ben Joyce) with his incredible falsetto voice. He changed his name to Frankie Valley and later to the more Italian ending Valli after a Texan hillbilly singer, Jean Valli.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: The Windsors Endgame, Prince of Wales Theatre (2021)
Harry Enfield as King Charles III (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Windsors Endgame, Prince of Wales Theatre (2021)

This comedy has King Charles (Harry Enfield) and Queen Camilla (Tracy-Ann Oberman) the dominatrix in charge.  Camilla has a cigarette on the go and issues bitchy remarks.  Kate (Kara Tointon) gets excited about the new Boden catalogue, as Camilla castigates Kate for shopping at high street stores.  Muggin (Crystal Condie) and Harry (Tom Durant-Pritchard) practise their yoga poses and meditate in California and Harry declares his love for Gladys his rescued battery chicken.

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